Technical Tutorials
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – GeometriCam: Fine control, but to what end?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the new app GeometriCam. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “Thanks to the exposure given to my tutorials by TheAppWhisperer, I occasionally am contacted by developers who want me to do an article on their new app. Such was the case with this week’s app, GeometriCam, and its developer, Giuseppe Capozzo. Sometimes I will turn down such requests. I want my articles to come from the same place as the average user of the…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Dreamscope: A Dream Delayed
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Dreamscope and it’s not all favourable. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Dreamscope is free and you can download it here. “Some photo and art apps are processing-intensive, requiring multiple steps to achieve a look. This processing can eat up your battery life. A large portion of a developer’s time can be spent trying to maximize the efficiency of that processing, since nobody wants their device to be in a waiting mode,…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – PhotoArtista – Haiku: For Best Results, Dilute
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app PhotoArtista- Haiku by Jixipix. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… PhotoArtista – Haiku retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here. “I’ve covered quite a few Jixipix apps over the past few years: Vintage Scene, Grungetastic, Dramatic Black and White, Hallows Eve, NIR Color, Chalkspiration, Fold Defy, Rip Pix, Artoon and Artista Impresso. I stress in most of those articles that the results of these apps can be quite harsh when…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Leonardo: a matter of perspective
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Leonardo and continues his recent discussion using layers and selections in composites. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Leonardo retails for £3.99/$4.99 and you can download it here. “In my first look at Leonardo I emphasised the value of layers. Any discussion of Leonardo begins and ends with the flexibility that layers gives you. Modifications can be made to single layers, and the opacity and position of layers can be changed after…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Formulas Photo Lab Effects: A Beautiful Mess
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe features Forumulas Photo Lab Effects and the outcome is not entirely favourable…. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “New apps by established developers can be missteps for a variety of reasons. Last time I covered Satur8, by the developer of Decim8. Satur8 is hard to control, has no explanation of blend modes, and has not been touched since initial release. Today’s app is Formulas, by Samer Azzam. Azzam has written the fabulous Stackables app, as well as a highly respected camera replacement app (Pro Cam XL) and a “tiny planet”…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Satur8: Color Gradient Tool
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe features Satur8 and the outcome is not entirely favourable…. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “Being an app developer is hard work. Even when you come up with a great idea and an app that delivers on that great idea, users are constantly looking for what’s next. Therefore, you have to come up with another great idea or update the first app on a regular basis with more good stuff. No one can succeed 100% of the time, so sometimes you miss. My next two articles will be about apps…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Texture Masking
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe has created a video to explain more about texture masking in the app, iColorama. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£2.99 and you can download it here. “Here’s a technique that may or may not interest you. As stated in the video, textures are usually blended into an image. That means that some of the color of the texture and some of the luminosity of the texture are combined with the pixels of the underlying image. But what do you do if you like the pattern of…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Flowpaper: Mesh these effects into your artwork
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Flowpaper. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Flowpaper retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here “Computer art has been around for over fifty years. Allowing software to create lines based on user input is computer art at its most basic. Today’s app, Flowpaper by Diatom Studio (available for both iPhone and iPad), is a beautiful new take on that initial foray into computer art”.
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How To Record Your TrueView Interviews – Video Tutorial – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to this spectacular video tutorial by our wondrous Editor, Jerry Jobe. This week (by popular request), Jobe has created an iMovie tutorial to help our interviewees create their own TrueView Videos for us (if you haven’t seen these, then you must! Please go here). iMovie (for iOS) retails for $4.99/£3.99 and you can download it here. So many thanks to Jobe, this is wonderful, thank you! "By request, here’s a video tutorial about making videos using iMovie, the free app for all iPhone users. There are a few points I want to make before you watch the video: Video does take off the edges of your photos. If I…
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Adobe’s PaintCan: A Nifty Addition to Beginner Paint Apps
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Adobe’s PaintCan app. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… PaintCan is free and you can download it here “Painting apps can take several different forms. There are the auto-painting apps, that apply the brush to the canvas in a specific, software-driven way. Glaze, Brushstroke and the AutoPainter series are among the auto-painting apps I’ve covered. There are those that allow you to “trace” photos, but the user completely controls the brush strokes…
